The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-09
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Pope LEO has received among his Jubilee gifts
a wooden petticoat, worked by poor woman
and her crippled daughter
BURLINGTON Free Press: Table-boarder-
Waiter, there's a hair in this stew Waiter
tcheerfullyl-Yes, sir; it's rabbit stew.
LOWELL Citizen: Candidate (earnestly)-A
vote for means deadly blow to the saloon.
Can count on you at the polls2 Voter-You
bet. I'm with you every time. Candidate 10y
ously)-Good enough! Lets go and take some
thing.
SENATOR HAwLEY's bride is receiving atten-
ton from the pens of Washington correspond
ents. 1t is solemnly announced that she went
shopping few days ago and chose dressing
gown for her husband.
GOVERNOR BIGGs, of Delaware, is keen-eyed
man, with ruddy complexion and long, snow
white hair. He owns eleven farms. He has
made nearly $3.50. 600 through the annual failure
OF the Delaware peach crop. He is president of
small railroad in the little State which has
honored him in political way.
THE Queen Regent of Spain is gaining great
hold the affection of her subjects, and is said
to be a wonderful woman. charming in manner
and possessing great administrative ability. 1t
is claimed by many that she will rank one of
the great women sovereigns of history. Some
may doubt all this from the fact that she cannot
keep the baby king quiet in public
COLONEL MYNATTs mother, living at Pine
by crying out suddenly: 'Poor Susan is dead;
she's gone to her rest" The lady referred to
living in Texas, and had not been seen by
the family for years. few days later the mail
brought news of her death. which had occurred
suddenly at the very time at which Mrs. Ny
matt had cried out.
THE Probate Court recorder at Cincinnati
says that as rule women are less selfish than
men. In reading one hundred old wills he
found many cases in which the husband made
provision to cut off the widows allowance in
case she should remarry, while in his whole
experience he has read but one will of a married
women in which such stipulation respecting
her husband existed.
Mrs. GILLIGAN, the heroine of the adventure
with the escaped lion from the Barnum show at
Bridgeport. Conn, has settled with Mr. Barnr1ln
for the loss of her COW. She agreed to accept
s75 for the damage done by the lion. Before
the money was paid the died. Mr.. Barnum
at once presented Mrs. Giligan with a Jersey
COW from his large dairy farm. Mrs. Gilligan
has signed contract with agents of the great
show to travel and exhibit herself next season.
THERE is very general impression that Presi-
dent Cleveland is fat man. Says a correspond
ent ,''As matter of fact he is not fat. although
he is stout. His flesh is remarkably firm and
his muscles are remarkably strong. while his
bones are large and well knit The result is
that he carries himself with more ease, grace
and dignity than most men of half his size. and
suffers very little of the inconvenience over
which fat men as large as he is constantly
groaning."
JOHN r. ALLEY, of Boston, who is now in
Paris. is said to be the richest Republican poll
tcian in Massachusetts, His wealth is esti-
mated at more than SIC, 600, O00.s 1t will thus be
seen that the reason he has never been Governor
of the Bay State is not financial in its nature
Mr. Alley is about seventy years of age. but
strong and active. He was member of Con-
gress from Massachusetts during the war. He
spends great deal of his time in Washington,
where he owns large amount of real estate.
DURING his illness the German Crown Prince
has been much remembered by the Jews on &C.
count of his noble defense of them against, the
attacks made upon them in Germany in recent
years. 1t is recalled that he described this
as a blot on German culture that in
1879 he visited Berlin synagogue and was
present at the charitable concert with the ex-
press view. as he himself stated, of proving his
objection to the Jew-hating manifestations; and
that in 1880 he acknowledged Pastor Grueber's
work on Christians and Israelites' with an ex-
preston of the s'hope that the outbr eak of
fanaticism might speedily die away, and that all
denominations might be animated by sense of
mutual tolerance and forbearance."
MAURICE THOMPSON, in contribution to a
New York paper. maintains that the reign of
anarchy in this country is due to the failure of
our government to pass law of international
copyright. His line of argument may be gath
cred from this closing sentence of his article:
with our gates wide open to immigration, and |
with a standing premium offered on alien infiu- |
ences in our literature and art, with our |
domineered over by ten-cent stolen |
editions of pessimistic and nihilistic books of |
foreign authorship, with our critics singing |
peans to communistic novels and with our pull |
pits believing alteration of Tostoi and Turge- |
neff and the rest, who shall wonder that anarchy
dares to lay its train and explode its bomb in |
our midst!"